This book explores the complexities surrounding the self-identity of the Irish in Victorian Britain, which differed not only from place to place and from one generation to another but which were also variously shaped by issues of class and gender, and politics and religion. It sheds new light on the history of the Irish in Britain, and also on the broader study of the Irish Diaspora and of immigrants and minorities in multicultural societies.This book was proviously published as a special issue of Immigrants and Minorities.